Marianne Macdonald is a Canadian children's books author and novelist best known for her mystery series featuring London antiques bookstore owner and amateur investigator Dido Hoare.

Main themes of the Dido Hoare novels are responsibility

Responsibility

Responsibility may refer to:* Collective responsibility** Cabinet collective responsibility, a constitutional Convention in Governments using the Westminster System* Corporate responsibility** Corporate social responsibility...

 and trust, the struggles of a single working mother and a complex and troubled father-daughter relationship.

Work

Dido Hoare Series

• Death's Autograph (1996)
• Ghost Walk (1997)
• Smoke Screen (1999)
• Road Kill (2000)
• Blood Lies (2001)
• Die Once (2002)
• Three Monkeys (2005)
• Faking It (2006)

Children's Books

• Black Base Rock (1952)
• The Pirate Queen (1991)
• The Eighty-Nine Pennies of Emma Jones (1992)
• The Witch Repair (1995)
• Dragon for Sale (1998)